Just wondered what a poet from the past would have written if had glimpsed our future as it is.


Barren Earth.

Forsooth these are such tainted times

Of blackened hearts and acrid climes

Where men at war in battles be

What hope for future, do I have in thee

Nerr, did I see in fortunes bold

A world of pain, my blood runs cold

Utopia was to be my thought

Not fire and brimstone, A world now caught

Within a circle of disruption

By mans own hand, his own destruction

Forsake that not which could be thine

From lessons that are passed in time

Mankind needs peace, for what its worth

Is nought, if all is barren earth.



Poetry by penfold18
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Written on 2007-05-23 at 11:02

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normalil
A write after my own heart Graham. Applaud.
2007-05-25


Kathy Lockhart
outstanding poetry Graham. It is a bookmark for me.
2007-05-23


Hagzissa
Yeah, man truly is the biggest threat to the planet earth.......
Excellent writing here and I do admire your rhyming-skills.
Well done!
2007-05-23


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
This barren earth Graham is a lovley and a very prophetic poem Graham well done rgds Mike
2007-05-23